Michelin probes Dana tyre blowout

Tyre manufacturer Michelin is to examine a tyre which blew on Dana’s campaign car to assess it for sabotage, the presidential candidate has revealed.

Garda experts have inspected the wheel but found no explanation for the rubber to burst at high speed on the M4 motorway in Co Kildare last Tuesday night.

Dana said she had been informed over the weekend that detectives found nothing to suggest criminal damage on the Peugeot 508 car.

“Gardaí called us the night before last to say they couldn’t find a definitive reason for the blow-out,” she said.

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